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male speaker: it was a tremendous big deal for virginia, for america. it showed what we mouth as our beliefs and principles were not empty promises. ...that pride does burst forth and lifts my voice and my spirit to acclaim so that i can say to you today that i am a son of virginia. thank you, and god bless all of you. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ he's very inspirational, not only to the african-american community but i think to people in general. once again, it shows that if you're committed to something and you're willing to fight for it and not be turned off by the obstacles that people throw in front of you, that is a marvelous story, and it's a marvelous example for everybody. i think from the standpoint of african-americans, he brought the largest number of african-americans into government in the history of the state of virginia. that's worth something. but the question then is, "what were they able to achieve?" and i think quite rightly, when you look at the economic circumstances of the state at the time, it was very diff
male speaker: it was a tremendous big deal for virginia, for america. it showed what we mouth as our beliefs and principles were not empty promises. ...that pride does burst forth and lifts my voice and my spirit to acclaim so that i can say to you today that i am a son of virginia. thank you, and god bless all of you. (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ he's very inspirational, not only to the african-american community but i think to people in general. once again, it shows...
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they end up having a big argument about it, deering and chalfin. deering is trying to cut money and says it doesn't have to be so elaborate and he's not convinced it's going to work and chalfin is pushing it. >> as if standing sentinel over the marine garden, eight graceful stone peacocks carved by artist gaston lachaise were found perched on top of twisted columns. the birds situated at the base of the "o" bridge signaled to all visitors the magic that lay beyond. it becomes very exotic once you leave this italian i guess it would be the architectural aesthetic version of pantheism; it's to worship all things. the casba gets invented and top the boat house is treated like something you see in tangiers or something or algiers with tiles and fountains and basins and that sort of thing. it's really quite an exotic, dreamy world beyond in the water, in the lagoons. >> in 1922, james deering's dream was complete. the team of chalfin, hoffman and suarez transformed deering's request for a quaint country home into a legendary estate that was said to epit
they end up having a big argument about it, deering and chalfin. deering is trying to cut money and says it doesn't have to be so elaborate and he's not convinced it's going to work and chalfin is pushing it. >> as if standing sentinel over the marine garden, eight graceful stone peacocks carved by artist gaston lachaise were found perched on top of twisted columns. the birds situated at the base of the "o" bridge signaled to all visitors the magic that lay beyond. it becomes...
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this was a big opportunity for him. this was his main chance and he grabbed it. >> i think he was absolutely a character. i mean, first of all he was openly gay in the 1910s, which not something that people would necessarily be. and he would dress up like a gaucho you know. he was extremely flamboyant and bold at the same time. >> as if driven by an impenetrable mission, deering and chalfin traveled to europe and started buying paintings, sculpture, tapestries and antiques. >> i don't think they were friends in the personal sense. they were both caught up in the project. this house brings them together and they spend ten years really equally obsessed with it, and i think that is the great attraction of vizcaya. it's not a stamped out product of its time. it's really the result of these human obsessions, and these enormous passions about not just doing it, but doing it well and i think that comes through. chalfin is really what every client would want to have, someone who can advise you when the architect is making sense
this was a big opportunity for him. this was his main chance and he grabbed it. >> i think he was absolutely a character. i mean, first of all he was openly gay in the 1910s, which not something that people would necessarily be. and he would dress up like a gaucho you know. he was extremely flamboyant and bold at the same time. >> as if driven by an impenetrable mission, deering and chalfin traveled to europe and started buying paintings, sculpture, tapestries and antiques. >>...
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things; big prairies, big forests, and mountains, big wheat fields, railroads, and herds of cattle too, big factories, steamboats, and everything else. but what we must keep steadily in mind is that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue!" (narrator) following the 4th of july dickinson speech, roosevelt and friend and newspaper publisher a.t. packard traveled together back to medora. it's once been said that you have no idea how far you can go in american life if you look good on the back of a horse. roosevelt learned how to look good on the back of the horse. he learned how to be a hunter's hunter. he learned how to give 4th of july speeches on mainstreet towns like dickinson that were there to unite and inspire people. it was all part of the education of this young man that was just filled with ambition. i think it's true that that dickinson speech, if you put it to the collected speeches of theodore roosevelt, it'd be probably the first speech of the volume. it's the beginning of what we're going to see as this political dynamo and the
things; big prairies, big forests, and mountains, big wheat fields, railroads, and herds of cattle too, big factories, steamboats, and everything else. but what we must keep steadily in mind is that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue!" (narrator) following the 4th of july dickinson speech, roosevelt and friend and newspaper publisher a.t. packard traveled together back to medora. it's once been said that you have no idea how far you can...
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that's a big concert hall. carnegie hall is about 2,400, and many of the great halls are right in that area. charlie owens the lack of intimacy in a very large hall that was, of course, built originally to maximize the number of people who could enjoy motion pictures that eastman kodak company wanted to showcase early in their history. it's a beautiful hall, but it was too big. doug lowry the other thing is that aesthetically when an audience goes into a hall and it's 3,200 seats and it's about a third full, it looks very empty. but when you go into a hall now at 2,200 seats, and maybe it's two- thirds full, it feels like it's a sold out house. and believe it or not there is a palpable relationship between how musicians react to a house that's mostly empty as opposed to a house that's close to full. narrator the work would be done in several phases, beginning with the stage itself. the object was to build a new shell for orchestras to perform in - one that could be easily removed for other types of performances
that's a big concert hall. carnegie hall is about 2,400, and many of the great halls are right in that area. charlie owens the lack of intimacy in a very large hall that was, of course, built originally to maximize the number of people who could enjoy motion pictures that eastman kodak company wanted to showcase early in their history. it's a beautiful hall, but it was too big. doug lowry the other thing is that aesthetically when an audience goes into a hall and it's 3,200 seats and it's about...